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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, private schools have succeeded![/quote]

Prescreening your test takers is not succeeding in closing the achievement gap. Please.[/quote]

Speaking of pre screening your test takers ... one big difference between Latin and the Tier 1 charter middle schools is that nearly every kid Latin enrolls in 5th grade is still enrolled at Latin in 8th grade. The most "successful" charters suffer a rate of attrition that, at a private school, would be shocking. Maybe the difference between Latin and the Tier 1 charters is simply that Latin keeps the bottom quarter of its class around - and the PCSB rating system doesn't give much credit for that. [/quote]

I don't know the weighting, but the DCPCSB Tier system does take retention into account (the satisfaction component). [/quote]

Re enrollment is included, yes, but not mid year withdrawals ... those kids just disappear at no cost to the school's rating. And yes, I'm suggesting that the factors are weighted so that, on net, schools are rewarded for sloughing off poor students: they get up to 80 points based on the DC CAS (overall scores, median growth percentile, and "leading indicators," which is just a way of putting extra emphasis on the 8th grade math score). They can get only 10 points for reenrollment. (The last 10 points are attendance.)[/quote]

You're wrong, PP.  The re-enrollment rate that the PCSB measures is the percentage of kids who were enrolled on count day last year who are enrolled on count day this year.  Mid-year withdrawals hurt the re-enrollment rate.[/quote]

You're right! Good.

It's still a winning strategy to drop a kid who is going to score basic or worse. A 1% reduction in reenrollment is more than offset, under the PCSB formula, by the increase in % of kids scoring proficient or advanced. [/quote]

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